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adjective

Stigmatical, Stigmatic adj.

Marked with a stigma, or with something reproachful to character.

Impressing with infamy or reproach. (R.)

(Bot., Anat., etc) Of or pertaining to a stigma or stigmata.

Stigmatic geometry, or Stigmatics, that science in which the correspondence of index and stigma (see Stigma, 7) is made use of to establish geometrical proportions.

noun

Stigmatic n.

A notorious profligate or criminal who has been branded; one who bears the marks of infamy or punishment. (R.)

A person who is marked or deformed by nature.

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Etymology of 'Stigmatic'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Stigmatic" Quotes from Famous Books

... might be a great advantage to the hive-bee to have a slightly longer or differently constructed proboscis. On the other hand, I have found by experiment that the fertility of clover depends on bees visiting and moving parts of the corolla, so as to push the pollen on to the stigmatic surface. Hence, again, if humble-bees were to become rare in any country, it might be a great advantage to the red clover to have a shorter or more deeply divided tube to its corolla, so that the hive-bee could visit ...

— On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection • Charles Darwin

... with short filaments, two-celled; dehiscent longitudinally. Pistillate flowers bracted with a three to five, normally four-lobed calyx and sometimes with petals. Ovule solitary, erect, styles two, stigmatic along the inner surface. Fruit a bony nut, incompletely two to four-celled. Seed large, two to four-lobed, cotyledons ...

— The Pecan and its Culture • H. Harold Hume

... a single flower, with the upper leaves of the perianth turned back to show the column (x). sp. the spur attached to the lower petal or lip. o, the ovary, x 1. C, the column seen from in front. an. the stamen. gy. the stigmatic surface, x 1. D, the two pollen masses attached to a straw, which was inserted into the flower, by means of the viscid disc (d): i, the masses immediately after their withdrawal; ii, iii, the same a few minutes later, showing the change in position. ...

— Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany - For High Schools and Elementary College Courses • Douglas Houghton Campbell

... more frequently on different trees; calyx lobes oblong and obtuse; petals linear-oblong; pedicels short; stamens 5-8, much longer than the petals in the sterile and about the same length in the fertile flowers; the smooth ovary surmounted by a style separating into two much-projecting stigmatic lobes. ...

— Handbook of the Trees of New England • Lorin Low Dame